Larian Studios Forums Divinity: Original Sin 2 Divinity - Original Sin 2 - Bugs & Technical Problems Beta worked under Linux with Wine - Release NOT ?!

Dear Larian Crew,
As a backer of OS2 on Kickstarter and great fan of OS 1, which I consider one of the two best RPGs ever, and whose Enhanced Edition's Linux port I truly revelled in, I of course wished to play Divinity 2 upon the day of its release via Wine on my Antergos (Arch) 64bit installation.

Yet whilst your latest Beta worked rather flawlessly still on April 13 2017 (!) the release version (both GOG and Steam under Wine) causes some Directx11 related errors and just crashes. Please see [url=https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=18266]WineHQ reports on the matter (2.16 staging, Wine 2.17).[/url]

So, pray, could provide some 'rollback' for Directx (from now to before-release state) for your loyal and loving Linux community?
Thank you very much!
Cecco

Release works for me like beta. However, I still considering game unplayable (books are solid black).

Dear Abishai,
Well, I wouldn't mind black books so much... as long as I could indulge in the glorious combat system.

Pray tell: What version of Wine with which winecfg-settings and what distro do you use, and which graphics drivers?
Did you make a fresh install for the release version? Or just update your latest beta?

Best regards
Cecco

Maybe I can give you some information.

I'm using Lutris as Wine client and wine 2.16-staging 64bit version (with dotnet40 installed over winetricks). I have downloaded and installed a clean Steam and a clean release version of DOS2, but I can't run game over Steam client, I need to run it directly from "steamapps" folder.

I'm on Ubuntu 16.04 and I can't remember, that I did any special wine configuration changes.
I have NVidia 980 GTX and I think, I have NVIDIA drivers for it.

When I start the game from Steam, it fails to install dependencies. .NET Framework 3.5 is the problem I think, I tried to install it manually too, but it also fails when installation process tries to download some files from the internet (I guess it's some Wine bug or no support issue, could be also related to 64bit, I don't know exactly). So I gave up from .NET Framework and tried to install Mono just get around .NET Framework dependency and I still had the same problem with dependency installation by Steam. After that, I tried to run game manually and it worked.

What I have noticed additionally when I start the game over Steam client, it goes over dependency installation and then it tries to start the game - and I see next to game: DOS2 - Running, after that DOS2 - Syncing - and that's it.

I would like to collect all problems + solutions/workarounds in this post: http://larian.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=614453#Post614453

Thank you Mtodor!
Just added to your collection.
Might be an AMD related problem then...
Cheers!

I use arch linux with nvidia blob and wine 2.15-staging, wineprefix was clean. I installed only xact with winetricks, without it there was no sound. Game is GoG version without GoG client, game version is 3.0.141.999.

Runs pretty fast, if not books issue it would be playable. I tried different tricks to fix books, messing with wine settings and installing additional dlls. I can say it's not easy to break the game from working, even with stage features on.

Thank you very much!
From Mtodor's thread, winehq entries and your latest reply I strongly suppose that my problem be due to my AMD graphics card and the related drivers.

Probably nothing I can do until the next wine or mesa update, alas.